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Hi, since version 6.xx the libraries should have been converted to XML from the previous binary format...am I correct?

I use version 6.50, free edition, and all my projects and newly created libraries are still in binary.

I can not find in menus any chance to import/export/convert to XML.

What is wrong? Is there a setting somewhere or this feature is not available with the free version ?

Thanks

 

P.S. this is my first post to the forum, so please forgive me if something is wrong.

I wanted to do a search inside the topics, but I can not find the classical "Search" field.

If it exists, where is it ?

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    Am 26.09.2013 10:14, schrieb Giacomo Alfandari:

    Hi, since version 6.xx the libraries should have been converted to XML

    from the previous binary format...am I correct?

    Yes.

     

    I use version 6.50, free edition, and all my projects and newly created

    libraries are still in binary.

    I can not find in menus any chance to import/export/convert to XML.

    What is wrong? Is there a setting somewhere or this feature is not

    available with the free version ?

    Thanks

    Just open your old library with Eagle Version 6.xx and save the library.

    You don't have to export/import/convert manually.

     

     

    P.S. this is my first post to the forum, so please forgive me if

    something is wrong.

    I wanted to do a search inside the topics, but I can not find the

    classical "Search" field.

    If it exists, where is it ?

     

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    Thanks Patrick for your prompt reply.

    I'm quite confused!

     

    I use Eagle since version 4.something and in these years I created a lot of

    components.

    When a new release is available, I switch to it and then I move my own

    libraries in the new LIB folder.

    Most of these have been created with versions 6.xx, so they should already

    be in XML.

    Actually, when I open them with a text editor (Ultraedit), some are in XML

    and some are still in binaries.

    In example: in August 2012 I made an Analog Devices DDS library with about

    6 components (fresh, not copied).

    On that date I was for sure at release 6.3, eventually at 6.4, but the lib

    was still in binary.

    I opened the lib and then saved it without any modification...and

    'whoilà', it is now in XML!

     

    Does it mean that a newly created lib is formatted in binary and only

    re-saving it is converted?

     

    Confusing!

     

    EDIT:

    in the meantime, I made a test lib with just one pin...it has been coded in

    XML !? (even more confusing)

     

    I think this message does require an answer; it is only to let you know my

    feeling.

    Thanks anyway.

     

     

    Quote:

    Just open your old library with Eagle Version 6.xx and save the

    library.

    You don't have to export/import/convert manually.

     

     

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  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    On 26/09/13 16:13, Giacomo Alfandari wrote:

    In example: in August 2012 I made an Analog Devices DDS library with about

    6 components (fresh, not copied).

    On that date I was for sure at release 6.3, eventually at 6.4, but the lib

    was still in binary.

    I opened the lib and then saved it without any modification...and

    'whoilà', it is now in XML!

     

    I think by far the most likely explanation for all that you have

    observed would be that in August 2012 you were still using V4.x or V5.x